david blaine

(Not quite sure where this belongs, but General Skepticism seems reasonable.) David Blaine has apparently set a new record for not breathing underwater, live on Oprah. Is this believable? Is 17 minutes really achievable without trickery, apart from breathing pure oxygen? Is it endurance, or...

Brilliant Stuff AYxu_MQSTTY Edited to change the URL for the YouTube tag.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/353/21/2306 Via the New England Journal of Medicine....

Is David Blaine a Houdini or a Hoax? That is the question posed in a viewer poll on Good Day New York (Fox 5) this morning (within context of reporting on his current stunt). This question doesn't even make sense though. What is a hoax in regards to his stunts? He's a magician for crying out...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/13/people.davidblaine.ap/index.html

Blaine plans high-wire stunt I don't think there is anything that David Blaine can not do.

I saw a street magic special of his recently, it had little tidbits of Leonardo DeCaprio talking to him for some reason, but one of his great tricks was telling someone what card they were thinking of, when asked about this by Leo, he said it was the same ability we had as kids to know who was...

Poor David Blaine- he's just endured 44 days in a tank above the Thames, getting mooned at, objects thrown at him and some crank trying to cut off his water supply. Now, us Brits have voted him the biggest loser of 2003- 1 in 4 people polled named David the big L. What do you guys think about...

In this Yahoo! Story: Tenacious D goes on Hunger Strike They will spend 45 days in a glass box in Times Square, outdoing Blaine by one day. In addition, they've got condition: "Actor/singer/guitarist Black said the strike would end early one three conditions: if "The Complete Masterworks"...

De_Bunk posted this into another thread, but it deserves a thread all its own. Article in The Sun This guy is the ultimate at embarrassing himself.

A photo series of Blaine-in-the-box Two pictures of interest: Photo A: Taken, standing on the river bank, to the left of the box. Photo B: Taken, standing on the river bank, to the right of the box. Now, look at the small window at Blaine's feet. In Photo A, the hinges are on one side. The...

How worried was David Blaine that his blanket was taken out the box and went with him! I wonder why?;) malc

well he's out Any coments?

Saw him do that again the other night. We went over this ad nauseum some time ago but refresh my memory. The is some technique (I forget the name) where you position yourself just right and sorta go up on the toe of the foot that is hidden. We sorta agreed that the video of him really going...

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20030926/D7TQ7U881.html Looks like ol' Blaine is getting attention from someone. I wonder what the point of his 44 day trick is. Where does he excrete his human waste to? He doesn't get to eat but I'm sure he has to drink.

I heard this on the news about 1/2 hour ago. I went pale, when I heard the news report. They started out by refering to his stunt in London, where he is suspended above the ground in a cage. He is to be in this cage for 44? days. He is one week into the stunt. Ddddddid he die????? Not YET...

I have respect for you james but your support for david blaine is erm 'amazing' 44 days in a perspex box, no offense where is the excitement in watching soomeone wearing a nappy in a box for 44 days? He has been subjected to eggs, golf balls and laser pointers amongst other things, but...

Blaine really makes me mad. The sooner he get's out of the UK the better. The guy is a fake. I don't mind a magician when he accknowledges that he's performing *illusions*, but the way this guy talks, it's as if he truely believes he's the real deal. Take the publicity for his latest stunt. He...

Magician Blaine Drenches British Press in Blood Downscaling a bit, me thinks: I've seen him on Carson Daly taking out his own heart, in a stunt that way outperformed any psychic surgeon. Take that, Clancie! (who believes in medium Brian Hurst, a fierce advocate for psychic surgery being a real...

Oh yeah....heard it on the radio. Dare we hope other body parts are next? He's no Van Gogh.

From The New York Times (registration required): Note: The article might be deemed as "giving away secrets," but Blaine denies it.

Hi all, I'm new here and in no way a magician. I've always considered myself a skeptic especially after reading Mr. Randi's Flim-Flam. But I've had a lot of time on my hands lately and I've been studying David Blaine's special that aired on the Discovery channel last year. I have a really...